Guard you thoughts as you would your wallet. Habit is stronger than reason. — George Santayana Habit Copy Share Image
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana Harmony Copy Share Image
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything. — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. — George Santayana Death Copy Share Image
The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence — George Santayana Admiration Copy Share Image
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. — George Santayana Character Copy Share Image
In the concert of nature it is hard to keep in tune with oneself if one is out of tune with everything… — George Santayana Concert Copy Share Image
The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw.… — George Santayana Draws Copy Share Image
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far. — George Santayana Conventions Copy Share Image
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. — George Santayana Absurd Copy Share Image
To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place… — George Santayana Fruit Copy Share Image
For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing. — George Santayana Atheism Copy Share Image
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves. — George Santayana Drink Copy Share Image
The world is so ordered that we must, in a material sense, lose everything we have and love, one thing after another,… — George Santayana And love Copy Share Image
What better comfort have we, or what other Profit in living Than to feed, sobered by the truth of Nature, Awhile upon… — George Santayana Age Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Aim Copy Share Image
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness and sheer… — George Santayana Carelessness Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant surprise to him (the pure mathematician) and an added problem if he finds that the arts can use… — George Santayana Art Copy Share Image
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine… If we dramatize its life and conceive… — George Santayana Amusement Copy Share Image
My remembrance of the past is a novel I am constantly recomposing; and it would not be a historical novel, but sheer… — George Santayana Ballast Copy Share Image
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana Balance Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid… — George Santayana Architecture Copy Share Image
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather… — George Santayana Active Copy Share Image
Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds… — George Santayana Ambition Copy Share Image
There is (as I now find) no remorse for time long past, even for what may have mortified us or made us… — George Santayana Ashamed Copy Share Image
The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our… — George Santayana Absolutes Copy Share Image
Sex endows the individual with a dumb and powerful instinct, which carries his body and soul continually towards another, makes it one… — George Santayana Beauty Copy Share Image
Experience has repeatedly confirmed that well-known maxim of Bacon's that 'a little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism, but depth in… — George Santayana Add Copy Share Image
“It would be easy, however, to exaggerate the havoc wrought by such artificial conditions. The monotony we observe in mankind must not… — George Santayana Nature of man Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Barbarians Copy Share Image
